Re: [PATCH] commit: detect misspelled pathspec while making a partial commit.

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:46:03PM CET, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> When you say "git commit Documentaiton" to make partial commit
> for the files only in that directory, we did not detect that as
> a misspelled pathname and attempted to commit index without
> change.  If nothing matched, there is no harm done, but if the
> index gets modified otherwise by having another valid pathspec
> or after an explicit update-index, a user will not notice
> without paying attention to the "git status" preview.
> 
> This introduces --error-unmatch option to ls-files, and uses it
> to detect this common user error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> 
> ---
> 
>  * Pasky, does this address the issue you mentioned earlier on
>    the #git channnel?

Yes, this is what I meant. I actually have no practical experience with
this since I'm not a git-commit user, I merely expressed horror ;) on
what you mentioned during the night. BUT it turns out that this affects
Cogito as well, albeit in a milder version - only when you pass multiple
explicit paths to cg-commit and some of them are misspelled, they are
ignored quietly (unless all of them are misspelled).

So, thanks for the fix on behalf of Cogito users as well. ;-)

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